B4p wrote:second attempt at a reply. My first one just after your arrival has gone into the ether!

welcome Sparticus from Brutus presidente gluteous maximus

Hail, Brutus presidente gluteous maximus,After the long hard winter of burst water pipes and raised eyebrows it heartens me to find you. I wonder if we will need to raise an army again come October. We stand in readiness.

I don't think I've met any of you before, have I? I frequented the Lonely Threaders area of the BBC messageboards for the past two years - but they seem to have shut up shop and Inanna directed me here. I've recognised a few familiar names on my visits here, but it's also nice to meet new people.

Unfortunately my computer isn't showing your smilies, but if administrators are going to put words into a little cat's mouth, then I'm not going to post ...

Know what you mean kitty kins...but the big cats like to play....it is a game and all you have to do is find other ways of stating your words........that will keep the cats busy playing finding other ways of making us smile with their cleverness....(some of it is really quite clever) In the meantime please accept this...